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Cameras in Sarasota, FL
52 mapped plate readers, 35 traffic cameras, a speed camera program and a red light camera program in Sarasota.
Plate readers © OpenStreetMap contributors · © OpenMapTiles
Sarasota, by camera type.
Sarasota: 52 plate readers mapped. Nearby: St. Petersburg 83, Clearwater 44, Tampa 113 and Plant City 41.
Speed cameras in Sarasota
Sarasota runs a speed camera program (running, as of Jun 2025), not yet on this map.
2 speed or red light cameras are on the map, counted apart from official lists.
- School-zone speed cameras · Running (as of Jun 2025) FLHSMV School Bus & School Zone Cameras Summary Report, Dec 2025 ↗ · current status not dated
The law, in short:
Red light: Mark Wandall Traffic Safety Act (Fla. Stat. § 316.0083); speed: HB 657 (2023) school zones only (Fla. Stat. § 316.1896, citation not yet confirmed).
Red light cameras in Sarasota
Sarasota runs a red light camera program (running, as of Jun 2025), not yet on this map.
- Red light cameras · Running (as of Jun 2025) Florida DHSMV ↗
The law, in short:
Red light: Mark Wandall Traffic Safety Act (Fla. Stat. § 316.0083); speed: HB 657 (2023) school zones only (Fla. Stat. § 316.1896, citation not yet confirmed).
License plate readers in Sarasota
52 plate readers are on the map in Sarasota, and 43 of them carry the Flock Safety tag. Most don't say who runs them. SarasotaPoliceDepartment is tagged on 1.
First-mapped dates here run from Nov 11, 2024 to Oct 29, 2026. 31 of the 52 were first mapped in 2026, with 10 in August alone.
The EFF's Atlas of Surveillance lists 3 agencies based in Sarasota that use plate readers, among them Sarasota Police Department.
Who can search plate reads in Sarasota
EyesOnFlock lists no transparency portal for the Sarasota Police Department (Oct 14, 2026). It posts no sharing list, so who can search reads from its cameras is not stated. The sharing lists of 209 agencies name it, so it can search their reads.
Sarasota Police Department
- Agencies on its posted sharing list
- Not stated
- Keeps each read for
- Not stated
- Agencies whose reads it can search
- 209
No transparency portal listed, Oct 14, 2026 · See its sharing lists, as of Oct 14, 2026
Get one summary email a month on new plate readers in Sarasota
Portal figures and sharing lists: EyesOnFlock (CC BY-SA 4.0), from Flock Safety transparency portals.
Traffic cameras in Sarasota
From Sarasota County.
Camera tickets in Sarasota
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Sources and updates
How this page was made: CamsAhead writes each page type once, then fills it with this place's data from the sources below.
- FLHSMV School Bus & School Zone Cameras Summary Report, Dec 2025: school-zone speed camera program, running, as of Jun 2025
- Florida DHSMV: red light camera program, running, as of Jun 2025
- OpenStreetMap contributors: plate readers, speed and red light cameras, data as of Nov 7, 2026; ODbL 1.0
- EFF Atlas of Surveillance: agencies that use plate readers, data as of Aug 2026; CC BY 4.0
- Sarasota County: Camera locations: Sarasota County. Read November 7, 2026.
- US Census Bureau: city boundary (cartographic file 2025)
Plate reader points are mapped by OpenStreetMap volunteers (data as of November 7, 2026).
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